today at the Veteran Writers Workshop there was the visiting of Mahmoud Darwish’s writings again, and i picked out 2 of the lines to write from
“this isn’t my path to my freedom’s land”, and “the ancient history of asia”
i seen my silhouette beaming in the sun of some ancient culture
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streaming lines of the sunsetting into the ocean
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i seen a thought burble burst into the air amidst the most brilliant observation
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while still in the panting of exhilaration
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yes, i beheld the brilliance of sparkling drops of dew on the roses
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scented heavily with your freshness of perfumed romance
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the romance of i wish to and want to – so badly do i want to live
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not in mediocrity of that which holds me back
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the back lash of the reverberated lies that came from the feeding at the lions den
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i want the freedom of my land to be not so barren as to have no love
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in it’s vast contributions,
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on it’s ups and downs,
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near its heat and cold,
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and with its curiosity still not struck nor satisfied
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for the every turn and corner that could and does hold that of unknown –
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yet to the time of experience
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so we see in the ancient history of asia, the foot prints in mud, the deep foot prints sinking in the grey and red clays
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squished between the toes, and given another breath, generation after generation
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how love then was birthed from time to time like rain fallen and wine that just recently came too from under foot, under the beautiful feet of my muse
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as i still sit amused
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my body still not quite healed from all the bruises turmoiled to abuses of years past
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still assaulting me today for that of fresh attacks on my person
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this not new to me at all
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about 2 decades coming
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that devils sit on thrones
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trying to undo the ancient historic culture
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of the bodies of asia that i am
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that is in the yin and yang of the love that i once shared and still share to this day
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the days rays still coming down
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but not in here in this southern californian land that we walk upon and that now i roll upon once again
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we see all the sins of the world and sins of the individuals
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and the sins we want to commit ourselves one with another
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– if only the fun benign devils wanting to play in the fun spirit of love that we are
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so to we give to every moment that we have
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shall we as i wish we did and shall
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shall we in this ancient history of Asia stemming from the Ancient history of Africa
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and yet my foot still stuck in that clay – toes all filled with the drying of red a bit porous and turns to powder
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all i need though is some water
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to get me from that land that isn’t my path to my freedom’s land
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when liars exposed!
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prompts from
this isn’t my path to my freedom’s land
the ancient history of asia
skid row is not my path to the freedom land
kenneth james 